Maybe I should travel and visit some cute beings this weekend

The biggest pile of arrogant wank anyone has ever written about Lisp – in a crowded field of arrogant wank written about Lisp – can now be read free of charge in its full glorious wankingness https://letoverlambda.com/

Ooh, Elephant Bay Cola Mix is also really good (and available from the library café)

come for the Codeberg agitprop, stay for the gay shitposting

RE: https://zpravobot.news/@eastblocvisuals/117588243066888442

all of this still happens in Poland every day

after this weekend I think Riegele Spezi may actually be better than Paulaner

it just has a liiittle bit extra orange flavour which makes all the difference

Is there a resource somewhere explaining how Clojure’s ‘laziness’ works for someone who has read Wadler’s ‘How to add laziness to a strict language without even being odd’?

Clojure, as far as I can tell:

• is generally strict
• but has lazy lists (?)
• but in example code I don’t see the delay-force pattern

which confuses me. Does it just have odd streams?

Hahaha it’s worse than freezing for nearly one hour. I thought my train leaves at 07:57. It actually leaves at 08:57 :neocat_facepalm:

So freezing for nearly two hours it is

Ich bin gerade in Linie M46 nach S Südkreuz Bhf (Berlin) für #eth0! #NowTräwelling https://traewelling.de/status/9557902

Wait, is there a hump yard outside Halle (Saale) Hbf? I just saw two freight wagons rolling on their own into the freight area

forniphilia tie that turns someone into a 19 inch server rack

‘how does this keep happening’, asks everyone who hasn’t seen @vncresolver https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/02/supermarket-freezers-across-europe-hit-by-second-suspected-cyber-attack

wait, new SAD solution: continuously travel westwards during winter

sad thing about winter in the internet age is seeing friends in America post about their plans for ‘the morning’ when it’s already gone dark here :-(

I assume the ParticleDB company is going to be doing some damage control PR very soon.

Your bingo cards might include squares such as

• we understood the bugs but chose not to reveal the causes to Jepsen
• our LLMs understand the code fully
• some bugs were present only in pre-release versions, so they’re fine
• we were running Jepsen’s published test suite against a different version than the one they ran it on
• ditto, omitting mention that this was also not a pre-release version
• ditto, also omitting mention that the version Jepsen tested was a later version, so this was a regression they could and should have caught

I hope no other DB company is put off hiring Jepsen by this, because if you’re actually competent at database implementation, a database reviewed by Jepsen actually makes you look more competent in the end.

There is, at last, a worse database review than https://web.archive.org/web/20191225031849/https://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else

The Jepsen analysis of ParticleDB is so funny

DB companies usually commission Jepsen so they can go ‘hey, this expert analysis found some bugs which could happen under very rare conditions with multiple servers and multiple clients, and we fixed them’ – it’s overall good publicity because it makes the company look diligent about data integrity, notwithstanding the discovery of bugs

This one is ‘the expert analysis found that almost no functionality worked as advertised even with a single server and client, basic SQL semantics were horrendously broken, some new versions created even more bizarre bugs, and the analysis also reveals that nobody at the company was able to explain the bugs or how they were fixed, and even the test suite they claimed they’d already successfully run was actually failing to begin with’

(Also: Damn, it must have taken the patience of a saint to work with these people)

Does anyone have a spare ticket for eth0 they would be willing to sell?

Boosts welcome!

GDPR is basically the perfect tool for sadists with a bureaucracy kink

gah, just thought for a moment that it’s Friday. @theresnotime is to blame